Commonwealth Numbered Acts

States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1983 No. 119 of 1983 - SECT 59

59. (1) Subject to section 60, the Minister may authorize the payment to a
State under this section, by way of financial assistance to the State in
respect of recurrent expenditure in connection with approved professional
development activities, of such amounts as the Minister determines.

(2) Financial assistance is granted to a State under this section on the
condition that the State will ensure that an amount equal to the sum of the
amounts of financial assistance paid to the State under this section is
applied by the State for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure, in
respect of the year 1984, in connection with approved professional development
activities, being activities which are conducted (in whole or in part) during
the year 1984.

(3) In this section-

   (a)  a reference to expenditure in connection with approved
        professional development activities shall be read as not including a
        reference to expenditure in connection with the remuneration of
        teachers attending approved professional development activities unless
        the approved professional development activities are activities in
        which teachers at government schools and teachers at
        non-government schools are eligible to participate;

   (b)  a reference to expenditure in connection with approved
        professional development activities shall be read as not including a
        reference to expenditure in connection with the replacement of
        teachers during a period when they are attending
        approved professional development activities unless the
        approved professional development activities-

        (i)    are activities in which teachers at government schools and
               teachers at non-government schools are eligible to participate;
               and

        (ii)   relate to-

                (A)  education of the kind referred to in sub-section 10 (1),
                     12 (1), 15 (1), 26 (1), 27 (1), 29 (1), 30 (1), 34 (1),
                     44 (1), 52 (1), 54 (1) or 56 (1) of this Act;

                (B)  projects or programs approved under section 17 or 36 of
                     this Act or under the States Grants (Education
                     Assistance-Participation and Equity) Act 1983 ;

                (C)  projects or programs related to the education of peoples
                     of the aboriginal race of Australia or to the education
                     of female children; or

                (D)  such other matters as the Minister from time to time
                     approves; and

   (c)  a reference to a teacher shall be read as including a reference to-

        (i)    a person employed at a school and a person associated with the
               administration of a school or a school system, including a
               government school system; and

        (ii)   a person included in a class of persons declared by the
               Minister to be a class of persons to be treated as teachers for
               the purposes of this section.

(4) For the purposes of this Act, where, immediately before the
commencing day, a declaration was in force for the purposes of sub-section 47
(3) of the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1982, the declaration shall,
on and after that day, be deemed to be a declaration made under sub-section
(3) of this section.